1.      What do you see as the advantages of
(a) walking and
(b) cycling
as a form of transport in your area?
 
Good for health and takes cars off the road
 
2.      How would you rate (good, average, poor) facilities for
(a) pedestrians and
(b) cyclists
in your area? This could include such things as cycleways, pedestrian overbridges, cycle parking, quality of footpaths.
 
Definitely getting much better with cycle and walkways being completed along the streams through the city right now, the NW motorway has a great cycle path although it needs a separate section between Lincoln Rd and Te Atatu Rd so that it is not partially through suburban streets there.  It also needs extending to Westgate
 
3.      Would you support lowered speed limits on certain streets to enhance their use by pedestrians or cyclists? Yes
 
4.      Are you aware of where walking or cycling paths/lanes/routes are? Yes
 
5.      How well signposted are these facilities? Please note if signage is better for one mode than the other. Not to bad
 
6.      Are you aware of parts of the roadways or public spaces that (a) pedestrians or (b) cyclists can't use? No although there are plenty where I would not risk my life doing it given the current space allowed
 
7.      What would you do about these barriers? Continue to improve them
 
8.      Do you think there are certain conditions under which parking on footpaths is permissible? Can't think of any
 
9.      If your ward/community does not have a walking or cycling route map, would you support creating one? Yes
 
10.  Does the council have a walking and cycling strategy, and if not, would you support having one? It does
 
11.  Do you support travel plans in schools and workplaces? If so, what would you do to facilitate them? Not sure what you mean here, I support making the infrastructure available so that people have the choice of cycling or walking
 
12.  What other techniques could you suggest to improve walking and cycling as a regular activity? Streetlighting on cycle paths so it is safer at night
 
13.  What role do you see the council has in promoting public health? How do you see walking and/or cycling contributing? Absolutely.  One main role is in promoting design that incorporates walking and cycling
 
14.  Does your council or DHB have a travel plan for staff and visitors? Don't know
 
15.  Will you sign the Walking Charter? http://www.livingstreets.org.nz/ICharter.htm  I could not get to the charter
 
16.  Do you cycle and/or walk regularly? We recognize of course that many people who do not remain supportive of our aims to increase rates of both. Yes

  1.       What do you see as the advantages of
  (a) walking and
  (b) cycling
  as a form of transport in your area?
   
  Regionally: Good for personal health. Good for reducing fossil fuel consumption. Adds to pedestrian amenity of town centres by reducing impact of motor vehicles. Significantly builds sense of community. Exemplar for developers to move to more people oriented design. Sets example for school children and students to go to school by bike.
   
  2.       How would you rate (good, average, poor) facilities for
  (a) pedestrians and
  (b) cyclists
  in your area? This could include such things as cycleways, pedestrian overbridges, cycle parking, quality of footpaths.
   
  It is improving in Devonport - North Shore - with cycleways and cyclepaths. Schools are encouraging bike to work schemes. Elsewhere on North Shore cyclepaths are now built with roads, but they are still unsafe, because traffic is too fast. Elsewhere in Auckland Region - especially Waitakere and Manukau - there is a lot of work to do on city councils to get them to be more proactive with cycle infrastructure. Auckland City is putting in improved cycle infrastructure - more and more. But this is still a big opportunity. Transit needs more pressure on it to provide cycle crossing over harbour bridge.
   
  3.       Would you support lowered speed limits on certain streets to enhance their use by pedestrians or cyclists?
   
  I think 30kph zones are the logical step to increase POD development approaches to town centres wishing to improve pedestrian and cycle amenity. I am aware that Devonport is considering this. I think such a measure needs to become part of the toolkit suggested in Regional Land Transport Strategies.
   
  4.       Are you aware of where walking or cycling paths/lanes/routes are?
   
  Yes - in North Shore - through my involvement here, and through being a recreational cyclist. In parts of Auckland City, because I bike to work at ARC (from Devonport, take ferry, bike up Queen Street or Albert Street).
   
  5.       How well signposted are these facilities? Please note if signage is better for one mode than the other.
   
  On the whole, Auckland's are not well signposted, but they are marked on the road. Between Devonport and Takapuna, there are road markings as well as signs on posts indicating bike paths and routes.
   
  6.       Are you aware of parts of the roadways or public spaces that (a) pedestrians or (b) cyclists can't use?
   
  The big  frustration for me was that when the bus-way was built, no cycleway was put in parallel. This is disappointing. Engineers told me there was not room. However, I think it is crucial that multi-modal corridors are critical for the future.
  I also think in general that the notion of pedestrian access alone is not enough to ensure Places are designed and built for People. See my website on this at:
  www.places4people.org.nz
  I think we need to be moving beyond the simple provision of pedestrian access (which is important I know), to designing public spaces and places that are attractive and destinations in their own right.
   
  7.       What would you do about these barriers?
   
  Urban design and community provision and social thinking need to become part of the design thinking around places where cycling and ped access is concerned. It is not just about getting from A to B, it is about the enjoyable experience of the getting from A to B, so that the trip itself, the pathway itself, becomes a destination in itself, an experience in itself - not just a means of getting from A to B. Councils and their designers and engineers need to be thinking of streets as places to be, not just places to get from A to B.
   
  8.       Do you think there are certain conditions under which parking on footpaths is permissible?
   
  No. Except perhaps a matter of life and death for an ambulance or something.
   
  9.       If your ward/community does not have a walking or cycling route map, would you support creating one?
   
  Devonport has one of these, and I am aware that ARTA has created maps for all Auckland for cycling. But these need to be made at the level they are useful and attractive to tourists - then they will be useful for local population as well.
   
  10.   Does the council have a walking and cycling strategy, and if not, would you support having one?
   
  The RLTS has a section on cycling and walking. But I think that these transport modes are central to the development of living and breathing and community oriented town centres. More needs to be made of these modes in RLTS's.
   
  11.   Do you support travel plans in schools and workplaces? If so, what would you do to facilitate them?
   
  Yes I do. One good thing ARC can do, and is supporting through ARTA, is the provision of PT passes for participants. Also, green star ratings and such like can as part of their award include consideration of how employers or/and public buildings provide for and enable more sustainable modes of transport to and from work and school/education.
   
  12.   What other techniques could you suggest to improve walking and cycling as a regular activity?
   
  I would like to see schools required to provide safe and covered cycle parking on school grounds. And to see schools encouraged to lobby TLAs to provide for safe cycle routes around schools - a radius away - so parents become more happy with their kids biking to schools. Same for walking.
   
  13.   What role do you see the council has in promoting public health? How do you see walking and/or cycling contributing?
   
  It has a role. Active lifestyles are part of core council business. The more young are enabled to lead active lives getting to and from school, and key sports destinations, by bike/bus/walking - not mum and dad in the car - the better for the future.
   
  14.   Does your council or DHB have a travel plan for staff and visitors?
   
  ARTA does, but ARC does not have a very effective one. This needs to be fixed. ARC needs to demonstrate it is walking the talk on this, energy use, waste paper reuse, vehicle fleet etc.
   
  15.   Will you sign the Walking Charter? http://www.livingstreets.org.nz/ICharter.htm
   
  I have. We at ARC agreed for me to do that at Transport Policy Ctte as Chair.
   
  16.   Do you cycle and/or walk regularly? We recognize of course that many people who do not remain supportive of our aims to increase rates of both.
   
  I bike to ARC more than 50% of the time I go to Council.
  Otherwise I take a mix of ferry, bus and walking.
  About twice a month I drive to Council.
 

 
 
1.       What do you see as the advantages of
(a) walking and
(b) cycling
as a form of transport in your area?   KEEPS CARS OFF ROADS, MORE ENVIRONMENTALLY FRIENDLY
 
2.       How would you rate (good, average, poor) facilities for
(a) pedestrians and
(b) cyclists
in your area? This could include such things as cycleways, pedestrian overbridges, cycle parking, quality of footpaths.  AVERAGE
 
3.       Would you support lowered speed limits on certain streets to enhance their use by pedestrians or cyclists?   YES
 
4.       Are you aware of where walking or cycling paths/lanes/routes are?   NOT FULLY
 
5.       How well signposted are these facilities? Please note if signage is better for one mode than the other.  POORLY
 
6.       Are you aware of parts of the roadways or public spaces that (a) pedestrians or (b) cyclists can't use?  NO
 
7.       What would you do about these barriers?  MORE PUBLIC INFORMATION
 
8.       Do you think there are certain conditions under which parking on footpaths is permissible?  NO
 
9.       If your ward/community does not have a walking or cycling route map, would you support creating one?   YES
 
10.   Does the council have a walking and cycling strategy, and if not, would you support having one?  NOT KNOWN
 
11.   Do you support travel plans in schools and workplaces? If so, what would you do to facilitate them?  YES - MORE PAMPHLET INFORMATION
 
12.   What other techniques could you suggest to improve walking and cycling as a regular activity?  ENCOURAGE MORE ACTIVE PARTICIPATION
 
13.   What role do you see the council has in promoting public health? How do you see walking and/or cycling contributing?  YES
 
14.   Does your council or DHB have a travel plan for staff and visitors?  UNKNOWN
 
15.   Will you sign the Walking Charter? http://www.livingstreets.org.nz/ICharter.htm  TO BE CONSIDERED
 
16.   Do you cycle and/or walk regularly? We recognize of course that many people who do not remain supportive of our aims to increase rates of both.  REGULAR WALKER/TRAMPER/JOGGER
 
 

1. What do you see as the advantages of

(a) walking and

(b) cycling

as a form of transport in your area?
I live in Pokeno so they are both good for general fitness
and fun as opposed to a life style choice. However there
are places in the region where they both have advantages
over existing transport methods.


2. How would you rate (good, average, poor)
facilities for

(a) pedestrians and

(b) cyclists

in your area? This could include such things as cycleways,
pedestrian overbridges, cycle parking, quality of
footpaths.
Being in the country they are both just adequate. It
would be very difficult to cycle outside of the village
area.


3. Would you support lowered speed limits on certain
streets to enhance their use by pedestrians or cyclists?
The question is too open. I would support such an idea
depending on the streets and the impact on the rest of the
population.


4. Are you aware of where walking or cycling
paths/lanes/routes are?
Some.


5. How well signposted are these facilities? Please
note if signage is better for one mode than the other.
Easy to find if you know what to look for a roughly where
otherwise not too good.


6. Are you aware of parts of the roadways or public
spaces that (a) pedestrians or (b) cyclists can't use?
Yes.


7. What would you do about these barriers?
Not my role.


8. Do you think there are certain conditions under
which parking on footpaths is permissible?
No.


9. If your ward/community does not have a walking or
cycling route map, would you support creating one?
Not my role.


10. Does the council have a walking and cycling strategy
, and if not, would you support having one?
Not my role.


11. Do you support travel plans in schools and
workplaces? If so, what would you do to facilitate them?
Not my role.


12. What other techniques could you suggest to improve
walking and cycling as a regular activity?
Distance incentives such as keep track of how far you walk
or cycle to achieve targets such as the distance to
Australia, the Moon etc.


13. What role do you see the council has in promoting
public health? How do you see walking and/or cycling
contributing?
The council has a limited role.
Walking and cycling help promote healthy living and if
nothing else gets people away from the TV and or game
stations.


14. Does your council or DHB have a travel plan for
staff and visitors?
Not sure.


15. Will you sign the Walking Charter?
http://www.livingstreets.org.nz/ICharter.htm
I need to find out more first. If it makes sense then I
will support it.


16. Do you cycle and/or walk regularly? We recognize of
course that many people who do not remain supportive of
our aims to increase rates of both.
I have a treadmill and exercycle at home which I use
frequently.
 

 1.       What do you see as the advantages of
(a) walking and
(b) cycling
as a form of transport in your area? A. I live in a semi rural area and can enjoy both walking and cycling as recreational activities but as there are no shops within walking distance that is as far as it goes.
 2.       How would you rate (good, average, poor) facilities for
(a) pedestrians and
(b) cyclists
in your area? This could include such things as cycleways, pedestrian overbridges, cycle parking, quality of footpaths. A. on the North Shore in general things are improving but in my area there are no footpaths and both pedestrians and cyclists have to take care.
 
3.       Would you support lowered speed limits on certain streets to enhance their use by pedestrians or cyclists? A. I would but question whether this is a solution to the problem. The problem is that drivers are not sensitive to the needs of either.
 4.       Are you aware of where walking or cycling paths/lanes/routes are? A. Yes.
 5.       How well signposted are these facilities? Please note if signage is better for one mode than the other. A. Adequate where they exist.
 6.       Are you aware of parts of the roadways or public spaces that (a) pedestrians or (b) cyclists can't use? A. Yes
 7.       What would you do about these barriers? A. I would treat them on their merits on a case by case basis.
 
8.       Do you think there are certain conditions under which parking on footpaths is permissible? A. No.
9.       If your ward/community does not have a walking or cycling route map, would you support creating one? A. Yes.
10.   Does the council have a walking and cycling strategy, and if not, would you support having one? A. It has.
11.   Do you support travel plans in schools and workplaces? If so, what would you do to facilitate them? A. I would support any such initiatives and was involved in the walking bus scheme when on the ARC.
 12.   What other techniques could you suggest to improve walking and cycling as a regular activity? A. I visited Lyons in France last month was found that, like other cities in Europe, they have a scheme whereby the public can pick up a bike at a bike stand and ride free for 30 mins. The bikes are sturdy, and are not subject to attack by vandals. The scheme is well patronised.
13.   What role do you see the council has in promoting public health? How do you see walking and/or cycling contributing? A. It not only promotes health but takes the burden off public transport and traffic generally.
14.   Does your council or DHB have a travel plan for staff and visitors? A. Yes.
15.   Will you sign the Walking Charter? http://www.livingstreets.org.nz/ICharter.htm A Yes.
16.   Do you cycle and/or walk regularly? We recognize of course that many people who do not remain supportive of our aims to increase rates of both. A. I am an active triathlete currently building up to the 2008 Ironman so am familiar with the perils that are out there. I have even tried commuting on my bike, 34km each way.
 
 

  1.       What do you see as the advantages of
  (a) walking and
  (b) cycling
  as a form of transport in your area?
   
  I am pleased that both walking and cycling are increasing as commuting modes in Auckland city.  I hope that cycling will become more popular as more dedicated cycleways become available.
  Cyclists and walkers help reduce the numbers of cars on the roads with their attendant pollution and congestion problems.
  Both modes have important health benefits for the practitioners.
   
  2.       How would you rate (good, average, poor) facilities for
  (a) pedestrians and
  (b) cyclists
  in your area? This could include such things as cycleways, pedestrian overbridges, cycle parking, quality of footpaths.
   average to poor
  3.       Would you support lowered speed limits on certain streets to enhance their use by pedestrians or cyclists?
  Yes
   
  4.       Are you aware of where walking or cycling paths/lanes/routes are?
   
  Yes
   
  5.       How well signposted are these facilities? Please note if signage is better for one mode than the other.
   
  Pedestrian links not very well signposted
   
  6.       Are you aware of parts of the roadways or public spaces that (a) pedestrians or (b) cyclists can't use?
   
  Yes
   
  7.       What would you do about these barriers?
   
  Ensure that pedestrians are given priority in design - eg carfree areas, safe crossings, priority at traffic lights, good lighting seating etc
  Evaluate the schemes for providing bikes to hire and trial new schemes
   
  8.       Do you think there are certain conditions under which parking on footpaths is permissible?
   
  No
   
  9.       If your ward/community does not have a walking or cycling route map, would you support creating one?
   
  Yes
   
  10.   Does the council have a walking and cycling strategy, and if not, would you support having one?
   
  Yes
   
  11.   Do you support travel plans in schools and workplaces? If so, what would you do to facilitate them?
   
  The ARC works with employers to create travel plans for employees.
   
  12.   What other techniques could you suggest to improve walking and cycling as a regular activity?
   
  More dedicated walkways and cycleways.  More publicity about availability of such facilities.
   
   
  13.   What role do you see the council has in promoting public health? How do you see walking and/or cycling contributing?
   
  Councils should promote healthy exercise and cycling and walking are both excellent forms of exercise and relaxation
   
  14.   Does your council or DHB have a travel plan for staff and visitors?
   
  Not sure
   
  15.   Will you sign the Walking Charter? http://www.livingstreets.org.nz/ICharter.htm
   
  Yes
  16.   Do you cycle and/or walk regularly? We recognize of course that many people who do not remain supportive of our aims to increase rates of both.
   
  Yes - cycling less regularly in the winter/ walking is a daily activity.
   
 

 

1.      What do you see as the advantages of

(a) walking and
(b) cycling
as a form of transport in your area?
Walking is healthy and sociable and removes the dead feel of empty neighbourhoods.
Cycling has some of those advantages to the cyclist and the neighbourhood but it is dangerous both because of traffic and vehicle emissions.
 
2.      How would you rate (good, average, poor) facilities for

(a) pedestrians and
(b) cyclists
in your area? This could include such things as cycleways, pedestrian overbridges, cycle parking, quality of footpaths.
I live in Mt Albert in Auckland City. Facilities for walking are reasonable - footpaths are unkempt and too much litter conveys an unsafe impression to walkers.  Walking school buses are a great innovation and very active. I strongly support them.
Cycleways are very seldom used.  I would be lucky to see one cyclist a day using one. This is not surprising given their patchy nature. They begin and end capriciously and seem unplanned to enable cyclists to actually get anywhere.  Also, - too many hills.
 
3.      Would you support lowered speed limits on certain streets to enhance their use by pedestrians or cyclists?
Near schools certainly.

 
4.      Are you aware of where walking or cycling paths/lanes/routes are?
I think so.

 
5.      How well signposted are these facilities? Please note if signage is better for one mode than the other.
Quite well marked.

 
6.      Are you aware of parts of the roadways or public spaces that (a) pedestrians or (b) cyclists can't use?
No but see qn 2.

 
7.      What would you do about these barriers?
More coherent planning.

 
8.      Do you think there are certain conditions under which parking on footpaths is permissible?
No.

 
9.      If your ward/community does not have a walking or cycling route map, would you support creating one?
A job for community boards?

 
10.  Does the council have a walking and cycling strategy, and if not, would you support having one?
ARC has a walking and cycling strategy.

 
11.  Do you support travel plans in schools and workplaces? If so, what would you do to facilitate them?
Yes.  ARC strongly supports - and funds - such plans and I have voted for such funding.

 
12.  What other techniques could you suggest to improve walking and cycling as a regular activity?
Problem is that walking is slow and cycling is quite dangerous.  We get busier and busier.  Promotion of both to children as a recreation is maybe a way to go.  Cornwall Park is full of recreational walkers and cyclists for example.

 
13.  What role do you see the council has in promoting public health? How do you see walking and/or cycling contributing?
All physical activity promotes health. Problem is time.  .  .

 
14.  Does your council or DHB have a travel plan for staff and visitors?
Yes.

 
15.  Will you sign the Walking Charter? http://www.livingstreets.org.nz/ICharter.htm
Yes

 

16.  Do you cycle and/or walk regularly? We recognize of course that many people who do not remain supportive of our aims to increase rates of both.
Cycling: no.
Walking: when I can.

 

  1.       What do you see as the advantages of
  (a) walking and
  (b) cycling
  as a form of transport in your area?
  Healthy, clean, pleasant alternatives to car travel, sometimes quicker, more community friendly and in touch with the environment/society.
   
  2.       How would you rate (good, average, poor) facilities for
  (a) pedestrians and
  (b) cyclists
  in your area? This could include such things as cycleways, pedestrian overbridges, cycle parking, quality of footpaths.
  poor
   
  3.       Would you support lowered speed limits on certain streets to enhance their use by pedestrians or cyclists?
  Definitely
   
  4.       Are you aware of where walking or cycling paths/lanes/routes are?
  yes but we don't have enough and I wholeheartedly and consistently support better services, as both a regular walker and cyclist.
   
  5.       How well signposted are these facilities? Please note if signage is better for one mode than the other.
  Badly.  Few sings, absent connections (though when I ring the Council and tell them the footpath stops in the middle of nowhere/fails to link with other parts of the network etc) they often attend to the issue
   
  6.       Are you aware of parts of the roadways or public spaces that (a) pedestrians or (b) cyclists can't use?
  Safety is a barrier, otherwise there are certainly service limits
   
  7.       What would you do about these barriers?
  provide better formal and informal links, better services, give priority to walkers and cyclists.
   
  8.       Do you think there are certain conditions under which parking on footpaths is permissible?
  Not really.  it is a gripe of mine that I have often successfully lobbied for better pedestrian facilities which are then taken up by cars.
   
  9.       If your ward/community does not have a walking or cycling route map, would you support creating one?
  yes, have been actively involved with advocating for strategies, routes, maps and infrastructure, and the removal of barriers to pedestrian and cycling modes, as a local and regional councillor.
   
  10.   Does the council have a walking and cycling strategy, and if not, would you support having one?
  yes, I have been involved in its creation as a local councillor, and a submitter as a Regional councillor.
   
  11.   Do you support travel plans in schools and workplaces? If so, what would you do to facilitate them?
  Absolutely supportive, and have advocated and voted for these in my role as a Regional Councillor, effectively targeting travel plans, walking school buses etc and other Travel Demand Management options as a regional councillor.
   
  12.   What other techniques could you suggest to improve walking and cycling as a regular activity?
  Safety improvements (lighting, links with like infrastructure and public transport, better infrastructure), promotion, funding, dedicated areas and lanes.  Incentives for walking & cycling, and disincentives to car use.
   
  13.   What role do you see the council has in promoting public health? How do you see walking and/or cycling contributing?
  Walking and cycling, I believe, are fundamental to public health.  Great options and the basic building blocks for a healthy lifestyle, a healthy community and a clean environment
   
  14.   Does your council or DHB have a travel plan for staff and visitors?
  yes
   
  15.   Will you sign the Walking Charter? http://www.livingstreets.org.nz/ICharter.htm
  yes.
   
  16.   Do you cycle and/or walk regularly? We recognize of course that many people who do not remain supportive of our aims to increase rates of both.
  yes I walk and/or  cycle almost every day
 

1.       What do you see as the advantages of
(a) walking and
(b) cycling
as a form of transport in your area?  Less congestion, improved air quality, improved health, improved storm water quality etc. etc.
 
 
2.       How would you rate (good, average, poor) facilities for
(a) pedestrians and reasonable
(b) cyclists poor? 
in your area? This could include such things as cycleways, pedestrian overbridges, cycle parking, quality of footpaths.
 
It would have been a major miracle had Manukau City Council  become 'serious' about cycle ways under Sir Barry Curtis he was more interested in 'think big'.  Having been part of the Team the wrote Manukau's State of the Environment Report 'many' years ago now (the recommendations of which mostly remain unimplemented) I know that our conclusion was that most of Manukau's environmental  problems e.g. air quality, water quality etc. all in some way or another related to the fact that the whole city has and is being designed to accommodate motor vehicles.  Manukau's urban area is 2/3 impervious surface to facilitate the car.
 
 
If e.g. Len Brown becomes Mayor then such things as cycle ways may get a look in!!!  But I can't see it happening with any other candidate
 
 
3.       Would you support lowered speed limits on certain streets to enhance their use by pedestrians or cyclists? yes
 
4.       Are you aware of where walking or cycling paths/lanes/routes are? No and if they exist they are few (I have never been a councilor at MCC and have not worked at MCC for many years I am also a rural dweller who has to date rarely got around the urban areas of Manukau!)
 
5.       How well signposted are these facilities? Please note if signage is better for one mode than the other. ???
 
6.       Are you aware of parts of the roadways or public spaces that (a) pedestrians or (b) cyclists can't use? Most parks and open spaces etc. are open to cyclists and walking.  Paths adjacent to roads are a common feature.  I cannot think of any specific prohibitions
 
7.       What would you do about these barriers? I'd want to know first why they were there and if there is no good reason for them then I see no reason not to remove them.
 
8.       Do you think there are certain conditions under which parking on footpaths is permissible?  No except if merely temporary to allow unloading or safely dropping some one off in a busy area or some such.
 
9.       If your ward/community does not have a walking or cycling route map, would you support creating one? It has one http://www.manukau.govt.nz/default.aspx?id=3212
 
10.   Does the council have a walking and cycling strategy, and if not, would you support having one? http://www.manukau.govt.nz/default.aspx?id=3212
 
11.   Do you support travel plans in schools and workplaces? If so, what would you do to facilitate them? Yes, I would be pleased to work on such matters and develop facilitation means based on the experience of any such successful schemes ( I am not a great believer in reinventing the wheel)  I feel those with a keen interest in this area such as yourselves would be the key people to work with on this!
 
12.   What other techniques could you suggest to improve walking and cycling as a regular activity?  Bike hire shemes, school cycle walking groups again all these ideas are already out there the most successful ones just need to be identified and adapted to meet Manukau's needs
 
13.   What role do you see the council has in promoting public health? How do you see walking and/or cycling contributing? Manukau has always had a major commitment to Community issues including health so I feel it will continue to do so
 
14.   Does your council or DHB have a travel plan for staff and visitors? I am not aware that MCC has one and I am not familiar as yet with the work of the Manukau DHB
 
15.   Will you sign the Walking Charter? http://www.livingstreets.org.nz/ICharter.htm    yes
 
16.   Do you cycle and/or walk regularly? We recognize of course that many people who do not remain supportive of our aims to increase rates of both.????? Not sure what you mean by this last sentence?
 
I have yet to find out about the ARC's policies etc. in relation to cycling and walking but feel certain they must in greater part meet yours!!
 

1.       What do you see as the advantages of
(a) walking and
(b) cycling
as a form of transport in your area?   As someone who cycles or runs to work about 3 times per week I think it is very important from a health, traffic, fuel saving, less emissions and feel good point of view.  It is also cheap and does not require a lot of infrastructure (I use a mountain bike as the roads are dangerous for road cycling).
 
2.       How would you rate (good, average, poor) facilities for
(a) pedestrians and
(b) cyclists
in your area? This could include such things as cycleways, pedestrian overbridges, cycle parking, quality of footpaths.   Average for mountain bikers and poor for road cyclists.
 
3.       Would you support lowered speed limits on certain streets to enhance their use by pedestrians or cyclists? Yes
 
4.       Are you aware of where walking or cycling paths/lanes/routes are? Yes, I use them regularly.
 
5.       How well signposted are these facilities? Please note if signage is better for one mode than the other.   Not well sign posted but getting better.
 
6.       Are you aware of parts of the roadways or public spaces that (a) pedestrians or (b) cyclists can't use?  Yes.
 
7.       What would you do about these barriers?  Try and change the law or at least get some sort of access near the road.
 
8.       Do you think there are certain conditions under which parking on footpaths is permissible?  I don't.  Pedestrians should not have to walk on the road because someone has parked on the path.
 
9.       If your ward/community does not have a walking or cycling route map, would you support creating one? Yes.
 
10.   Does the council have a walking and cycling strategy, and if not, would you support having one?  Rdc does have a walking and cycling strategy and is very supportive of walking school buses and travel plans.
 
11.   Do you support travel plans in schools and workplaces?  Yes. If so, what would you do to facilitate them?  Yes.   I have been involved in numerous travel plans for schools in Rodney.
 
12.   What other techniques could you suggest to improve walking and cycling as a regular activity?  Provide a safe cycling route for recreation al cyclists so that they can practice cycling and also feel safe.  Provide safe and covered cycling racks for storage of bikes.  Reward companies/firms for providing cycling opportunities for their staff.
 
13.   What role do you see the council has in promoting public health?   Working with the Government Depts responsible in joint ventures. How do you see walking and/or cycling contributing?
 
14.   Does your council or DHB have a travel plan for staff and visitors?  Yes for Staff and No for visitors.
 
15.   Will you sign the Walking Charter? http://www.livingstreets.org.nz/ICharter.htm   I would have to read it in depth before saying Yes or No but as a keen cyclists who does "walk the talk" I would consider it carefully.
 
16.   Do you cycle and/or walk regularly?   Yes,. Daily. We recognize of course that many people who do not remain supportive of our aims to increase rates of both.
 
I have also been recently involved in promoting a cycling route for recreation al cyclists from Silverdale, Wainui, Waitoki, Dairy Flat and back to Silverdale with the intention of there being a 1.2m or wider cycling lane on the left hand side of the road, with the circuit turning left all the time.  This initiative was reported in the local Rodney Times and I have been pursuing it with another keen cyclists.
 
As the ARC member for Rodney I would pursue this initiative as part of the Regional Cycling Strategy.
 
Cyclists could join this route at any location and feel safe and the more it gets used the more cyclists and motorists would respect each other.
 
I am a member of the local Triathlon Club and think this cycling route could have great benefits for everyone.
 
I am also aware that a lot of people who promote cycling, walking or running DON"T actually do any and I have been at numerous meetings of Council's and when I ask the question "How many walked, cycled, got the bus or car pooled to the meeting?' the answer is normally between 0% and 3%.  If the so called leaders and politicians cannot "walk the talk" how can you expect the public.  Some of the greatest advocates for public transport, cycling etc never travel that way.
 
As well as cycling, running etc I do carpool with my wife (we only have one car) and have been a regular user of the Gulf Harbour Ferry over the last year whilst attending about 50 meetings in Auckland - the ferry is a great way to travel.